Automated Google Workspace Backup with Point-in-Time Recovery

Track backup health from a single dashboard. Search, restore, or export data from any point-in-time snapshot.
Available add-onsRansomwareSecurity and ComplianceData Change InsightseDiscoveryArchiver
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Gmail

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Google Drive

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Shared Drive

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Google Classroom

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Google Calendar

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Google Contacts

Google Forms logo

Google Forms

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Google Chat

Google Admin Console

Google Admin Console

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Gmail

Google Drive logo

Google Drive

Google Drive logo

Shared Drive

Google Classroom logo

Google Classroom

Google Calendar logo

Google Calendar

Google Contacts logo

Google Contacts

Google Forms logo

Google Forms

Google Chat logo

Google Chat

Google Admin Console

Google Admin Console

Gmail logo

Gmail

Google Drive logo

Google Drive

Google Drive logo

Shared Drive

Google Classroom logo

Google Classroom

Google Calendar logo

Google Calendar

Google Contacts logo

Google Contacts

Google Forms logo

Google Forms

Google Chat logo

Google Chat

Google Admin Console

Google Admin Console

Without SysCloudWith SysCloud
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inactiveGoogle Drive and Shared Drive
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inactiveGoogle Contacts
inactiveGoogle Calendar
inactiveGoogle Chat
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Admins cannot recover data after 55 days
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What are the limitations of native data retention in Google Workspace?

Google offers basic tools to retain and restore data, but they’re limited. 

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    What are the limitations of native data retention in Google Workspace?

    Google offers basic tools to retain and restore data, but they’re limited. 

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      Back up the Admin Console that governs it all

      Users, roles, and security settings have no native point-in-time rollback. SysCloud backs up the Admin Console alongside the data it governs, so you can compare snapshots and restore what changed.

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      Why choose SysCloud for Google Workspace backup

      Instant Backup Visibility

      Get instant backup visibility from an intuitive dashboard, with clear status, backup health insights, and fast drill-down to any user or app.

      Intuitive dashboard

      Make smarter backups

      Automate Google Workspace backups. Let SysCloud handle all API errors and give you complete visibility on your backups.

      Backup dashboard

      Unlock your recoveries

      Recover data from any point-in-time backup snapshot, with the flexibility to restore to the original user or a different user.

      Point in time restore

      Locate data instantly

      Instantly access any Google Workspace app archive or dashboard.

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      Export easily

      Instantly export Google Drive, Gmail, Contacts, Chat, and Calendar data so that it can be imported into a different domain.

      Export easily

      Upgrade your searches

      Use granular search filters to locate data in the Google Workspace archives.

      Granular search

      Our customers love what we do

        Our customers love what we do

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          SysCloud vs. Other Google Workspace Backup Vendors: Which One to Choose?

          Check out our comprehensive guide comparing all the Google Workspace cloud backup vendors.

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          What Google Workspace apps does SysCloud backup?

          Read our in-depth guide on how SysCloud addresses the data retention and restoration gaps for all critical Google Workspace apps.

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          Enhance Google Workspace backups with advanced visibility and protection

          Elevate your backup with SysCloud’s add-on suite for greater visibility, automated threat detection, stronger compliance controls, actionable data insights, and automated archiving.

          Add-on

          Detect ransomware attacks, encrypted files and automate recovery.

          Safeguard Google Workspace data by detecting encrypted or malicious files in backup snapshots and recovering safe versions to minimize downtime and ensure business continuity. Use recommended runbooks to automate remediation and quickly notify the right teams with Action Flows.

          Google Workspace encrypted-file view with one selected file and the full More menu, including Delete and Restore from safe snapshot.

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          Detect compliance violations and secure data with automated actions.

          Protect Gmail, Drive, Shared Drive and Classroom by detecting violations with standard (PCI, FERPA, Confidential Data, etc.) and custom policies. Use recommended runbooks to automate remediation with actions like revoke sharing, quarantine files, or place content on hold and route alerts to the right owners with Action Flows.

          Security and compliance

          Add-on

          Streamline audits and investigations with eDiscovery Search

          Seamlessly search backed-up data across Gmail, Drive, Calendar, Classroom, and Contacts. Place search results on legal hold and export items on hold to speed up investigations.

          eDiscovery

          Add-on

          Detect insider risks and excessive data changes with Data Change Insights

          Detect unusual modifications, additions, or deletions using our AI-powered anomaly detection algorithm across Gmail, Google Drive, Contacts, and Calendar. Use recommended runbooks to automatically trigger exports of change details and notify the right teams with Action Flows.

          Data Change Insights

          Add-on

          Automate archiving to optimize storage and reduce license costs

          Archive inactive data from Gmail, Google Drive, Calendar, and Contacts using scheduled policies or on-demand archiving to reduce storage usage and license costs.

          Archiver

          Add-on

          Sky AI, your copilot for backup, investigation, and recovery

          Sky reads your backup stats and the threats detected in them, so it can answer questions, recommend the next action, and prove what happened. Every answer is scoped to your tenant and your admin role.

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          SysCloud web app
          MCP for AI clients
          Sky

          Designed for IT administrators

          Try SysCloud out with a free trial and discover how much faster, easier, and more flexible backups and restores could be, for IT admins and for everyone in your organization.

          Add any additional admin roles

          Add an unlimited number of admins, with granular access rights for each role. Every admin role you create can now use Sky, scoped to the permissions that role already has.

          Stylized screenshot of SysCloud's 'Add Admins' settings page, showing options to add an admin with granular access rights, including permissions for initiating backups, previewing email content, and accessing user data.

          Enable end-user self-service

          Give your users the freedom to perform their own data restoration and cut down on the numerous requests to restore lost data.

          Stylized screenshot of SysCloud's end-user access permissions page, showing permissions for users to view archives, restore data, and export content, enabling self-service data restoration.

          Enterprise controls built in

          Authenticate through your own identity provider, delegate access precisely, keep your own keys, and connect SysCloud to the tools your team already runs.
          Single sign-on

          Single sign-on

          Authenticate through your existing identity provider. Supports Okta and Microsoft Entra ID, and enforces the MFA and conditional access policies you already have.
          Role-based access control

          Role-based access control

          Custom admin roles with per-app and per-action scope, and an immutable audit log for every role change.*
          Public API

          Public API

          OAuth 2.0 client credentials with no SDK required. Endpoints for Jobs, Entities, Reports, and Trends, with scope-based permissions and endpoint-level rate limits.
          Splunk integration

          Splunk integration

          Stream backup, restore, and export events into Splunk, and visualize backup and storage trends with the SysCloud App for Splunk.
          Sky across surfaces

          Sky across surfaces

          Web app and MCP for AI clients. Every query is scoped to the asking admin's role and isolated to your tenant.
          *Available for Google Workspace. Microsoft 365 and other apps to follow.

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          Frequently asked questions

          If you’re hesitating, do not worry, we are here to explain everything you might want to know. Let us help!

          Your backup storage is uncapped, subject to our fair use policy. There is no fixed storage limit while your subscription is active, provided your usage stays reasonably proportionate to your number of licensed users. If your usage goes well beyond what a subscription of your size would normally involve, we may review it with you and discuss suitable adjustments, which may include additional licenses or revised terms.

          Yes. SysCloud lets you back up only your Shared Drives, with no separate pricing for each service.
          If you are only backing up Shared Drives, your storage is 100 GB per Google Workspace license, not uncapped. So to protect 800 GB of Shared Drive data, you would need 8 licenses.
          Please note that all new SysCloud subscriptions require a minimum of 100 licenses across all the apps you back up. This minimum is overall, not per app, and your Shared Drive licenses count toward it.
          Yes. Admins can enable backup for the Gmail and Google Drive Trash folders when creating a backup job. Trash is not included by default.

          Yes. During the free trial, you can back up Shared Drive and Google Classroom data. However, the trial supports backup for up to 10 Shared Drives and 10 Classrooms, within the storage capacity available during your trial period. To know more about the backup functionality for the shared apps, please contact our support team.

          SysCloud backup archives can be securely stored in AWS cloud storage locations across the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Germany, Singapore, and Japan.

          Yes. SysCloud captures users, organizational units, groups, admin roles, Chrome device policies, authentication and security settings, and admin audit logs, on the same schedule as your Google Workspace data. You can compare any two backup snapshots to see what changed, and restore to a known-good point in time. See the full object list on the Google Admin Console backup page.

          Ask which users and Shared Drives had unusual change activity, how far a ransomware event spread, which backup snapshot to recover from, why a backup job failed, how many licenses are active, and which admin accounts hold which roles. After a recovery, Sky can assemble a cited summary of what happened for audit. Sky answers questions about your Google Workspace backup data. It does not yet read Google Admin Console data.

          Google Admin Console backup is licensed separately from your Google Workspace subscription. See our pricing page for details.

          Yes, where the super admin has access. SysCloud backs up private spaces that the Google Workspace super admin is a member of, and the super admin’s direct messages. Due to Google Chat API limitations, other private spaces and direct messages are not backed up.
          Yes. Attachments in backed-up spaces are backed up. Shared links are backed up as links, not files, so add Google Drive backup to protect the linked files.
          Yes. Chat data that SysCloud has already backed up stays in your backup archives after the user is removed from Google Workspace. However, data must be backed up before the account is deleted.
          Chat data is exported in CSV. Exporting a message also exports its space, space member record, and parent message.
          Yes. New paid SysCloud subscriptions require a minimum purchase of 100 licenses, with each license letting you back up 1 user.
          This minimum applies only to new paid subscriptions, free trials and existing customers are excluded.
          The 100-license minimum applies to your overall subscription, whether you buy licenses for a single cloud or across multiple clouds. It is not a per-cloud requirement.
          No. The 100-license minimum applies only to new paid subscriptions. As an existing customer, you may continue with your current number of licenses and are not required to purchase additional licenses. Should this requirement change in the future, we will notify you in advance.

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